Just found a great mod - Sensible Map Borders. It turns off forced redirection mechanic when you reach invisible map border. That improves exploration quite a bit.

For some treasure hunts, I decided to travel normally, instead of using fast travel. So taking a boat from Novigrad to some far away southern Velen area could be fun, as long as it's reachable by sea. But one annoying part wasn't letting me through due to the invisible wall (not really sensible in that area):


With that mod, you can sail through just fine. Geralt keeps his remarks about "edge of the world" and etc. Which are useful, since in some cases you indeed can fall of the map.

How stable is that mod? No bugs? Have you tried AutoLoot Configurable All-in-One?

I didn't encounter any problems with this mod - it's fairly small, just one script file. But I didn't use it long. Haven's seen that autoloot one. I try to keep mods to the minimum.

Looting is half the fun! :D

(Just wish merchants had more money - there are probably mods for that, but for now I'll just stick stuff in the stash - must be 50 swords in there by now)

(Just wish merchants had more money - there are probably mods for that, but for now I'll just stick stuff in the stash - must be 50 swords in there by now)

I try to collect unique swords, but usually sell generic ones. One huge money drain is buying all those mandrake and cherry cordials to make White Gull. Money gets tight, but I found, that nekker claws, ghoul blood and drowner brains sell quite well. So hunting them actually pays, especially since they respawn in some areas in big numbers.

I do the same. Tousain merchants have more wealth, so if it's urgent to have better shops I'd persue that region.

For mods I try to keep it minimal too, but some I simply must have. I don't like to cheat so I restricted autoloots radius. And looting is part of the fun indeed. That's something the mod compliments. Now I can go towards barrels and other containers and see if there is loot in them, I find that nicer than sensing to highlight the loot with yellow outline.

The AutoLoot dev said he hoping to make it more balanced, as he didn't like the unfair aspects of it, but unfortunately he's mia.

Btw, the sensible map borders mod has one issue - if you save somewhere off the map, loading back can teleport you to some weird location. So better don't save outside the regular map areas.

I found a way to fix it. You need to basically disable (comment out) everything in these functions in r4Player.ws (should be added to that mod and merged if necessary):

OnStartTeleportingPlayerToPlayableArea
OnTeleportPlayerToPlayableArea

Just another night in Velen


Found some giant dinosaur (or dragon?) fossils on a big misty island:



Small hidden Scoi'atel camp on the eastern side of Yaruga:



Most guards were annoyed at Geralt's presence, but one on the second picture said to cheer up, and that Geralt is dandy. She also commented "one relic meets another".

Hehe. Just met the rock troll on the island near Oxenfurt. Very funny dialog.

Troll commenting on Geralt's chicken-like Redanian coat of arms:

— Beautifoo, pretty birdo.
— Think so? Long as you are happy with it.


Is that the camp that an elf you rescue tells you to meet up for?

Is that the camp that an elf you rescue tells you to meet up for?

Yes, that's the one.

Encountered a big pack:

A pack attacking a bear:

I went searching for the elf camp, it's not easy without no compass or map!

Griffin school techniques skill really pays off, especially with Griffin armor. The combination makes signs quite effective, while you can allocate the rest of the skill slots for combat skills. Though I picked to boost Axii in one slot as well, since it opens more options in dialogs.

The whole Witcher trilogy is available on GOG with major discounts now if anyone is interested.

TW1: 85% off
TW2: 85% off
TW3: 70% off

Looks like something Sony exclusive. I don't use their consoles :)

I think CDPR did that with some other games in the past too.

I ran Witcher 3 on my own PC and a friends.

Mine:
i7 4770k aftermarket cooler
Sapphire RX 580 Nitro 4GB
4 case fans
Case clearance for air flow: Nothing in way between front fans and GPU. Great clearance.

Friends:
Ryzen 1600 stock cooler
Asus Strix 580 8GB
2 case fans
Case clearance air flow: Nothing in way between front fans and GPU. Clearance isn't as good as my case but it's still good.

Off top of my head I get around 55-68 FPS on Linux with Proton. On the Windows PC Its roughly the same too. Videos on Youtube comparing the two gives like 10-15 fps difference. Seemed like game runs better on Linux than Windows.